Emmaline bag

Pant pant pant, busy getting blog psots done ahead of the deadline for Q4 of this year FAL!!! 

I am SO chuffed with this, No. 9 on my Q4 FAL list An Emmaline retreat bag, this is a free pattern a FREE pattern! and how well  written it was, a delight to work with. and so quick, in total i think it took a couple  of hours. Pattern from Emmaline bags

I love the fabric. I remember buying it at the 2017 FOQ Im fairly certain lovely Ruth also bought it. I still have tons left!

I loved making this so much I have sent away for the wires to make the bigger size which has a slightly more complicated looking inner pocket but the pattern is so well  written i dont think it will be an issue.

Reveille part deux

No 6 on my 2018 Q4 FAL list I had a weakness for charm packs ... please note the past tense. My lovely quilty friends Ruth and Claire are under strict instructions not to let me purchase any more at the FOQ. I love them but what the heck do you make with them? the only patterns i could find meant you had to cut them up impossibly small, im just not up to that any more. I do have a few left to use up but this quilt did use up a fair few of them. The pattern is Reveille from 'Another bite of schnibbles" I love the big border i added to size it up for siblings together. Its an early Zen chic line. It gives it a fuzzy out of focus look which i love.

Doesnt everyone baste over the bannisters :-)

I played bobbin chicken and won!

Year of scrappy triangles

This was No  2 on my 2018 FAL Q4 list A year of scrappy triangles by Leila Gardunia this was such a fun sew along. Great free patterns and i will use them again I think. What always amazes me about scrappy quilts is that they seem to generate more scraps than they use! 

Hey ho, it will go to Project linus where i hope it will be loved.

Batik jelly roll

Flip i didnt meant this to publish but since it has might as well finish it off! this was No 7 on my 2018 Q4 FAL list

 

It was a jelly roll from ea destash by Archie the Wonderdog. i must have got it over a year ago and knew what pattern i wanted to make with it but needed to get a coordinating fabric. I got the yellow at the FOQ this year, its very bold but i do love it. 

Some out takes from the husband holding quilt photo shoot :-)

New York beauty

Another finish! No 1 from this years FAL Q4 list I started this well over a year ago at the Thistle Patch retreat organised by Katy Cameron. These were some patterns we got at the retreat. I really enjoyed making them using up my Zhandra Rhodes fabric but i want do make a whole New York beauty with some other fabrics to thought I would just leave this one here and make a double sided mini.

Little Miss Muffet

 This was no 8 on my FAL Q4 list a mini tuffet. I wont say it wasn't without challenges … and my bottom wouldn't lay flat (story of my life …) but its done and I like it!

Henry the Horsie!

No 5 on my FAL 2018 Q3 list! Henry the Horse. Another fab pattern by Tartan Kiwi. Using my horded stash of Ardently Austen fabric. Im too late for the link up but i like to be completist :-) This was mostly done at one of this years Gartmore retreat.

FAL 2018 Q4

Oh man, i am squeaking in with my last list of 2018. Right no messing about:

No.1 - i have two large New york beauty blocks, trying to use up my Zandra Rhodes Lace Mountain fabric. I need to make some more and decide what im going to do with it.

No.2 - Sewn up by Leila Garduna has been running 52 weeks of scrappy triangles. a great fun sew along. It is now week 51, I have been keeping up so I now need to DO something with them.

No.3 - OK this one cant roll over again, i have to make something with this Neptune and the Maiden fat quarter bundle. i might make a quilt from the pattern in the picture but maybe not but it needs to get made into something.

No.4 - well this is coming along nicely, blocks all made and setting triangles are on some of them, just keep on plugging on and fingers crossed the farmers 1930s quilt will be done this year.

No.5 - I bought  this lovely embroidery by Ruby Seppings at this years FOQ, love the box!

No.6 - this is sort of a roll over, I made this from several charm packs, it needs backing, quilting and then off to Linus!

No.7 - I got this Jelly roll from a destash, possibly over a year ago, its lovely and has to be made into something. I have two patterns in mind.

No. 8 - Mini tuffet!i got this kit at the FOQ, cant wait to see what it looks like.

No.9 - Emmeline retreat bag, this is a roll over but i really want to use these fabrics and make the bag.

No.10  - I'm amassing too many scraps, i have an idea for a string rectangular block to use this up.

enough pandas????

OK you cant not know that i love pandas right?? so here is no 1 on my Q3 2018 FAL list the Oslo craft bag by sew sweetness. I have wanted to make one of these for ages, just never got round to it. but then i got the hidden panda canvas and i knew it had to be in this bag. I may have used up some more of my panda stash, but hey one can never have enough pandas 😁

Classic meets modern! another finish!

Number 2 on my FAL 2018 Q3 list, blimey im motoring on here! this was supposed to be a BOM by Myquiltinfatuation but im a bit rubbish at those and just went and finished it way ahead of time. Love the layout, used up a lot of dashwood in this. a fun bright quilt, destined for siblings together.

 Fabulous quilt holding from the fabulous Scoobs!

A leaving present

Oh my goodness where to begin?? well the beginning is a good place. Before i go any further lets just mention that this is me ticking off no 3 on my FAL Q3 list

I was in the process of leaving the jobi  had been in for 11 years a long time. My boss who has been a good boss and friend loves Japanese fabric and also loves the swans we have on campus, so it really was a no brainer to make her the Tartan Kiwi swan pattern in japanese fabrics. i knew exactly what i wanted to do, just needed to make sure i had enough fabrics.

The putting together was relatively straight forward, thanks to Juliets brilliant patterns this came together quite quickly.

Of course I had to get a picture of it on the campus

 And my favourite floofy pal had to photo bomb!